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...ABDUL AZIZ RANTISI, THE SPOKESMAN FOR 415 Palestinians expelled by Israel three weeks ago, looked out over the wintry landscape of the deportees' tent camp in southern Lebanon. "This is the first time most of us have seen snow," he said. "It would be beautiful if this weren't so tragic...
Ever brazen, Saddam Hussein dispatched Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to the United Nations to demand an end to sanctions. With maximum bluster and minimum facts that left members rolling their eyes, Aziz accused the Security Council of genocide and portrayed Iraq as victim. The council countered with a litany of violated agreements, thwarted weapons inspections, abuses against Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims and, as Aziz was reminded, the continued suffering of the Iraqi people because Saddam is diverting food shipments to his security forces and the military. After two days Aziz left empty-handed...
With Mazur, Aziz has developed a new techniquefor co-teaching Physics 11a. During lectures, theprofessors present questions on the overheadprojector, then ask students to explain theiranswers to their classmates. The results, he says,have been consistently higher performance onhomework and exams...
Zolla described Aziz as "a fairly social guy.He's not nearly as much of a geek as a lot ofother faculty down here...
...Aziz, 36, received a degree in applied physicsfrom the California Institute of Technology in1978, and a Ph.D from Harvard...